Why CAPTCHAs suck

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Robert Hoekman Jr, usability guru and author of the brilliant Designing the Obvious conveys inside a 140-character Twitter post why CAPTCHAs suck:

“Enter correct CAPTCHA, get error, reenter chosen password, recheck checkboxes, reenter correct CAPTCHA, wash, rinse, repeat.”

Ugly. Glitchy. Problematic from a readability and accessibility standpoint. I think CAPTCHAs are horrible and I won’t be adding them to my applications.

A simple question/answer spam challenge – as on Building Findable Websites – is a far more elegant solution. This is definitely *on* the roadmap.

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